John Byrne Barry
- Mill Valley, California
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I am here to reimagine...
I am here to encourage us to acknowledge and talk about our mortality, in order to make it more possible for our deaths and those of our loved ones to be better experiences.
My Story
John Byrne Barry is a writer, designer, actor, bike tour leader, and crossing guard.
His third novel, When I Killed My Father: An Assisted-Suicide Family Thriller, was inspired and informed by by his family’s experience with his mother, who died at 95 after ten years of falling deeper into dementia.
He is a contributing writer for Cake, an end-of-life planning website.
John Byrne Barry is a writer, designer, actor, bike tour leader, and crossing guard.
His third novel, When I Killed My Father: An Assisted-Suicide Family Thriller, was inspired and informed by by his family’s experience with his mother, who died at 95 after ten years of falling deeper into dementia.
He is a contributing writer for Cake, an end-of-life planning website.
My Community Resources
I Never Want to Go Down the Green Line
A conversation about death with UCSF palliative medicine physician, Dr. Dawn Gross.
How to Start a Conversation About Dying
An interview with Kate DeBartolo, Director of The Conversation Project.
When I Killed My Father (Paperback)
When I Killed My Father: An Assisted Suicide Family Thriller is a page-turner with a conscience, about a man caught between what is compassionate and what is legal.
Previous Reimagine events
What If Your Ailing Father Asked You to Kill Him?
March 29, 2022
What If Your Ailing Father Asked You to Kill Him?
March 23, 2022
What If Your Ailing Father Asked You to Kill Him?
June 14, 2020
What If Your Ailing Father Asked You to Kill Him?
June 10, 2020
What If Your Ailing Father Asked You to Kill Him?
June 06, 2020
Mill Valley, CA
Why I Wrote an Assisted Suicide Family Thriller
November 02, 2019
